President-elect Donald Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the position of attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Sessions, an early Trump backer, is an immigration hard-liner who has been in the Senate since 1997 and previously served as attorney general for the state of Alabama. In 1986 Sessions was rejected as a federal judge as he was deemed too racist.

Under the Obama administration, Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch dedicated Justice Department resources to areas such as civil liberties, voting rights, same-sex marriage, environmental and consumer protection. Elections have consequences, however, and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, has a new mandate.

Throughout the latter stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made a concerted effort to pitch his case to African-American voters, urging them to break with the durable tradition of strong black support for Democratic candidates. He informed black voters that their lives in the “inner cities” were hellacious, that they lacked jobs and… Read more »